Æthusa cynapium, L. Natural
order of plants, Umbelliferæ. A tincture is prepared from the
whole plant when in flower.

General Action :- ►

This plant,
formerly supposed to be poisonous, is now proved to be harmless ;
large quantities can be taken with impurity ; it seems, however, to
possess a disagreeable essential oil which provokes nausea and vomiting
and causes other symptoms. ► It is particularly useful in
gastro-intestinal disorders of children (vomiting, diarrha, and even
convulsions).

Allied Drugs :- ►

Sulph.,
Sul. ac.,
Tart. emet., Kali-b., Ox-ac., Ip., Grat.,
Gam.

Generalities :- ►

Hands, head and
face seem swollen after walking in open air, amel. in the house. ►
Clothes seem loose. ► Secretions diminished. ► Stabbing pain.
► Seething in blood in morning on waking. ► Uneasiness.
► Weakness, with sleepiness in afternoon. ► Amelioration in
open air ; after entering house ; after broth.

Clinical :- ►

A case
of infantile paralysis, with the characteristic indications for Æthusa,
is reported cured.

Mind :- ►

Anxiety. ►
Dullness like intoxication. ► Earnestness. ► Excited, lively
in forenoon, apprehensive, sad in afternoon. ► Fixed idea of a
garment which she had made the previous day, and of which she dreamed.
► Fretfulness ; in afternoon ; in open air, amel. in
house ; amel. towards noon. ► Does not talk willingly.

Head :- ►

Aching ; seeming
to come from teeth ; pulsating on entering house. ► Brain seems
bound up. ► Constriction. ► Drawing upward in. ►
Dullness. ► Pulsation, especially right side and backward, with
heaviness ; pulsation and sticking in afternoon. ► Raging here
and there on entering house. ► Painful screwing together from both
sides. ► Shattered feeling in afternoon. ► Vertigo ; in
open air ; during and after rising from a seat ; amel. open
air ; sudden while sitting, amel. rising.

Forehead :- ►

Aching ;
crampy, with disposition to contract eyebrows ; intermittent, in
lines vertically over each eye ; pulsating left. ► In forepart
of head, pain as if compressed posteriorly and superiorly. ►
Constriction from points vertically over each eye, amel. pressure ;
constriction and yet pressure outward ; constriction of brows.
► Heaviness which seems to press head downward, when sitting ;
heaviness which presses down eyelids, during dinner. ► Pressure in
sinuses. ► Pulsation. ► Shooting up over eyes. ►
Sticking, in afternoon on turning head to right. ► Jerking tearing
in left sinus while sitting. ► Tension as from a band fastened at
each zygoma. ► Sensation as if something were turning around in it.

Temples :- ►

Aching as if a
bloodvessel had been torn out of left. ► Pulsation, left. ►
Sticking shooting in left. ► Sticking, left ; and pulsation, amel.
pressure. ► Sudden tearing in right, in afternoon. ► Aching in
left mastoid process.

Vertex :- ►

Aching. ►
Painful sticking and beating, in afternoon amel. rubbing.

Parietals :- ►

Sticking in left
half of head ; inward in upper part of left bone ; sticking and
pulsating in upper part of right bone. ► Tearing and pulsation in
right ; sticking tearing in left. ► Twitching in right, in
afternoon.

Occiput :- ►

Aching in
right ; occasional. ► Heaviness. ► Sticking and pulsation
in upper part of right ; tearing stitches extending forward from, in
afternoon. ► Tearing in right side, shooting through whole head and
extending to right side, in afternoon.

Eyes :- ►

Burning as from smoke,
in house. ► Watery.

Ears :- ►

Sticking shooting in
left. ► Sticking in left ; into stitches in right hypochondrium, in
afternoon ; in left, with sensation of heat coming out of it,
alternating with stitches in left costal region. ► Stopped
sensation, with hardness in left costal region. ► Stopped sensation,
with hardness of hearing which lasted longer in left ear. ►
Stuffiness in right. ► Tearing, amel. rubbing ; sticking, in
afternoon, in right ; about left, extending to top of head. ►
Twitching.

Clinical :- ►

It is
reported to have cured a discharge from the right ear associated with
spasms, stupor and vomiting of milk.

Nose :- ►

Much thick mucus.
► Ulcerative pain, as if there were an open spot in left fossa.
► Pressure in upper passages. ► Sneezing ; inclination
to, in left nostril. ► Stitches externally, left side. ►
Stoppage ; sudden, morning, after waking.

Face :- ►

Sensation of fulness
and heat. ► Hollow-cheeked. ► Stitch like the tapping of a
finger in middle of left cheek, with tearing. ► Malar bones ;
crampy aching, agg. left ; sticking and tearing, in right ; tearing
in left in cold air. ► Lips dry. ► Tearing in lower lip
extending into neighboring teeth, in afternoon. ► Tearing in right
lower jaw.

Burning. ►
Dryness. ► Hawking, frequent ; inclination for hawking and for
spitting. ► Stitches when not swallowing. ► Desire to swallow,
as if to keep something down ; sensation as if she could not swallow,
with spasmodic contraction in right side of throat and ear, in afternoon
while sitting. ► sophagus, burning ; warmth and uneasiness.

For
vomiting of milk (in young children), especially of curdled milk, this
remedy is unrivalled associated with this condition or consequent upon
the gastric derangement there may be diarrha of a thin yellow or
greenish character (Gratiola,
gamboge). ► Some very obstinate cases of
gastrointestinal catarrh have been cured by Æthusa,
and it has even arrested convulsions and paralytic symptoms, which
doubtless had their origin in indigestion. ► The vomiting or
evacuation by the bowels of curds of milk is quite a characteristic
indication.

Abdomen :- ►

Coldness, in region
of transverse colon ; in upper. ► Cramps in small intestines
quickly shifting from place to place. ► Cutting above
umbilicus ; cutting in lower, with urging to stool. ► Griping
in umbilicus, then two soft stools. ► Gurgling and rumbling in
upper, and in stomach, with nausea and fluttering in stomach. ►
Sensation of a load in upper. ► Sensation in upper, as after a dose
of medicine. ► Movements, then a stool, which is first hard then
soft ; painful movements below navel, with desire for stool, after
morning broth. ► Pain as before diarrha ; pain in upper, and
in stomach, as from something indigestible. ► Pressure in left
hypochondrium and burning, with stitches. ► Rush as of boiling water
in umbilical region. ► Stitch in right hypochondrium, then in right
ear, in afternoon ; in left hypochondrium ; in left
hypochondrium, with burning, amel. rubbing ; burning stitches at one
time in right hypochondrium, at another in left loin ; sticking in
hypochondriac region, extending backward, in afternoon. ► Warmth in
upper.

Burning, as from a
glowing iron, in a spot below left breast. ► Crampy constriction
right. ► Digging and tension in front of right axilla. ►
Stitch in region of right ribs, in afternoon ; beneath left mamma in
afternoon, agg. inspiration ; in middle of chest, 6.30 P.M.,
during inspiration on rising after sitting bent, agg. deep
breathing ; acute in middle of sternum, then burning in same spot,
amel. pressure, but returning ; in left costal region, alternating
with sticking in and sensation of heat coming out of left ear ; deep
internally beneath left female breast, in afternoon. ► Tension in
front of right axilla, evening when knitting.

Heart :- ►

Crampy constriction,
with a feeling as if he could not take a long breath. ► Pulse
rapid ; slow and soft.

Neck and Back :-

►► Neck. ► Drawing pain as
if a tendon or bloodvessel would be torn out, in right side, amel.
rubbing. ► Stitch inward in left muscles. ► Tearing in a spot
on right side ; in tendons of right side ; pulsating in spot on
tendons of left side. ► Sticking twitching in nape. ►
Back. ► Aching in small of ; heavy aching across
kidneys, morning on waking. ► Drawing in right lumbar region while
walking, amel. sitting. ► Pain between scapulæ, morning on waking.
► Screwed-together feeling in small of. ► Stitch between
scapulæ ; in right lumbar region, then pressure ; burning at
one time in left loin, then in right hypochondriac region.

Superior Extremities :- ►

Shoulder, paralyzed feeling in left, then in right forearm ; painful
tension in left then right forearm, paralytic pain in left while
sitting ; sticking in tendons of right while using hand ;
sticking tearing in middle of left, along upper surface, to wrist ;
tearing in middle of left, along upper surface, to wrist ; tearing in
spot on inner surface of left ; tension in tendons of left while knitting,
amel. moving fingers ; sudden weakness while knitting ; darkness
near right wrist extending to little finger. ► Stitch in left
external styloid process. ► Hand ; tearing on back of right, in
tendons of thumb ; tearing in metacarpal bone of index, left and
right. ► Thumb, sticking in ball of left, on flexing, amel.
extending thumb ; stiff feeling left twitching tearing as in marrow,
between first and become joints of left ; twitching of left. ►
Fingers, fine sticking on left side of tip of right index, amel.
pressure ; tearing in lower surface of third joint of right
little ; tearing between little and ring, agg. stretching them.

Inferior Extremities :- ►

Weakness. ► Hip, pinching externally, in right ; sticking and
drawing into left thigh ; tension in right in afternoon. ►
Thigh, paralytic pain in middle of right while sitting, amel.
motion ; sticking in upper part of left. ► Sticking in right
knee in evening when standing. ► Tearing deep in right instep in
afternoon. ► Tearing sticking in right heel, extending into sole as
far as ball of foot. ► Sticking in right sole below heel.

Chilliness, internal
and external ; internal and external, with sleepiness, in
forenoon ; coldness in, around and behind right ear, seeming to be in
bone ; of feet and limbs, nearly to knees. ► Shivering on
entering house. ► Heat general ; glowing feeling over whole
body ; morning on waking ; heat of head ; and burning in
face ; rushing to heat ; in forehead, with pressure ; in
face ; with full sensation ; burning on right side of nose, then
as with a glowing needle externally in pit of stomach ; heat
extending up back in afternoon ; burning externally in small of back,
amel. rubbing ; general peripheral warmth. ► Sweat ; on
forehead.